Please look after mom : a novel / Kyung-sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shin, Kyong-suk.

Kim, Chi-Young, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--Fiction.

Families Fiction.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Seoul (Korea) Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Mothers--Fiction.

Families Fiction.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Seoul (Korea) Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage contemporaries edition.

Place of Publication:

Vintage Contemporaries/Random House : New York, 2012.

Summary:

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea--a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation--this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, "Please Look After Mom" is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book. "From the Hardcover edition."

Notes:

Originally published in slightly different form in South Korea as "Omma rul put'ak hae" by Changbi Publishers, Paju-si Kyonggi-do, in 2008. "This translation published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, ... in 2011"--T.p. verso. Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.

ISBN:

9780307739513

0307739511

OCLC:

861963871